Now free to watch: The People's Spring -how civic tech movements affect modern politics
New narratives from Africa - shaped by news and investigative reporting, and contemporary art-film
Some highlights from the latest manifesto of The Movement for Cultural Democracy
Robo-laywers, "deepfake" incidents, superbugs & city brains. Some predictions for 2019, from Nesta & others
Do you know your "commons-based peer production" from your "cosmo-localism"? A jargon test on our discourse here
Civic Meme Miscellany: Grieving dads play footy, recycling or re-using?, & not your average train ride
Alternative Editorial: Can We Change Channel Please?
To get behind a news story, add to it, dance to it, put it in history or out of context. This is Newspaper Theatre
"Deep reading" is good for citizenship - but we need "deep screening" too. Time to cultivate a "bi-literate brain"
Lesley Riddoch on the "power of local" - communities taking control in their own way
We don’t know what we don’t know…and somebody is constructing our ignorance. Welcome to agnotology
Vermont's Front Porch Forum is brilliantly successful at putting the Net at the service of communities
We are in an addictive relationship with our social media tech. Design ethics can break that
Woke Space Opera, Kitchen Sink Utopia, the New Weird, The Ultra-Unreal, Gulf Futurism... some useful new Sci-Fi genres
The Alternative UK is appearing in a podcast near you...
If there are "information terrorists" among us, can "slow truth" address the root of the problem?
Alternatives are flourishing because noisy, energetic participation chimes with so many people.
Stephen McLaren's The Crash - and what street photography can do for citizens
The big metaphors that might save the planet. But should it be "post-growth", "green new deal", or "the economics of arrival"?
The Designers' Oath: James Williams wants an ethics that respects human attention, in the digital age